This study proposes to examine whether eating behaviors and food cravings are altered while watching food-related television programs. More specifically, we examined whether educational food-related television (didactic, realistic portrayal of food) or entertainment foodrelated television (flashy, enticing portrayal of food) had any effect on the eating behaviors and food cravings of participan...

A low-cost low-power DTV tuner for current digital television application is described. In order to increase integration level and reduce power consumption for off-air DTV tuner application, an SAW-filterless tuner front-end architecture is adopted. As a part of the concept, key building blocks for this architecture are implemented on a main stream 0.35 μm CMOS technology. Experimental measurem...

The application of Business Process Management (BPM) technology can provide significant benefits to an organisation in terms of cost savings and responsiveness to changes. In this paper the application of this technology in the context of film production is investigated. A prototype called YAWL4Film was developed on top of a state-of-the-art BPM system. YAWL4Film supports collection and enterin...

In this paper, we present data management issues faced during the design and development of an open distance learning system for the University of Patras, Greece. In order to handle data eciently, as required in a web tele-training application, for each type of information maintained, di€erent strategies must be deployed according to their behaviour and structure. The diversity and complexity ...

In urban transit station, the use of analog CCTV surveillance system has increased to detect and prevent crimes, terrors, suicides, fires and so on. But these systems have problems that system operators have to monitor consistently the scenes in transit station and they cannot quickly cope with crimes, terrors, and fires. So, it is necessary to adopt intelligent surveillance system, which may p...

This paper suggests that video indexing is an interesting and important natural language application for which it is crucial to identify temporal information in collateral text that articulates the semantic content of moving images. Recently a rich source of information about the content of films and television programmes has become available in the form of audio description scripts. The analys...

OBJECTIVE: US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children’s background television exposure. METHODS: US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

The Tele-Lab IT Security project aims at specifying and implementing a web-based, intelligent tutoring system that allows computer science students, system administrators, and end users to get familiar with the basics of IT security. It provides a powerful, real-life working environment in which users can develop and practice solutions for problems of their every-day work with only little suppo...

In this study we describe a wide-spectrum approach to the integrative evaluation of an innovative introductory course in computing. Since both the syllabus, designed in consultation with industry, and the method of presentation of study materials are new, the course requires close scrutiny. It is presented in the distance mode to a class of around 5,000 students and uses a full range of media: ...

When the short message service (SMS), was first initiated in 1992 nobody could foresee its tremendous popularity. Simple in design, easy to adapt and effortless to employ it rapidly became a profitable, matchless, globally used mobile service – referred to as a “killer application”. Ever since the quest for the next mobile service “killer application” has continued. Year after year the mobile s...